In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is h... Read allIn Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is however loved by Blanche. Somehow a way has to be found to get out of this emotional chaos!In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is however loved by Blanche. Somehow a way has to be found to get out of this emotional chaos!
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- TriviaThe last of director Éric Rohmer's six "Comedies et Proverbes" series of movies of the 1980s. The other five, in chronological order, are The Aviator's Wife (1981), A Good Marriage (1982), Pauline at the Beach (1983), Full Moon in Paris (1984) and The Green Ray (1986).
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Alexandre: If you must know, I like slender, rather tall girls.
Lea: Blondes or brunettes?
Alexandre: Brunettes. With smooth, light, slightly tanned skin. They really attract me. Especially when they have big eyes and silky lashes.
Lea: Cut it out. You promised not to lay it on!
Alexandre: I'm not laying it on! You asked what my type was! You're much closer than Adrienne to my ideal. You've always attracted me. But fate was against it.
Lea: Fate! You control yours, don't be modest!
Alexandre: You're wrong! I don't like to push. I'm no Romeo. The fact is, girls like me! It's given me bad habits. It can be a disadvantage. They seek me out, so I just relax. Means I don't always wind up with the best. If I like a girl, I'll meet her sooner or later... Better later then too soon. Take us... I'm glad I met you now, not 6 months ago. We're both available...
Lea: Stop it! What's available mean? And I don't like your kind of guy. I like to be wooed!
Alexandre: You were with Fabien!
Lea: You should have been insanely jealous.
Alexandre: Who says I wasn't?
Lea: Actions talk! You should've done something wild!
Alexandre: Let's run away. I'll kidnap you!
Lea: That's not so wild. And I said no!
Alexandre: I heard yes.
Lea: It meant no.
Alexandre: I'll think of something wilder... Come live with me! You've even got your bags! My place's too big for me alone.
Lea: When you're alone!
Alexandre: I'm alone now.
Lea: I'm going to my folks'. They're expecting me.
Alexandre: Call them back!
Lea: They're asleep.
Alexandre: So they're not waiting up!
Lea: I might move in with you, but not now. We've known each other 6 months, so wait 6 more months. During that period, you mustn't date anyone else. Then maybe I'll let myself be wooed!
Alexandre: I accept. But you mustn't date anyone, either.
Lea: That suits me fine!
Alexandre: 6 months is a bit long. How about 6 days?
Eric Rohmer's career started with problems, and it wasn't going forward. But when he got off the ground, he proceeded more purposefully than anyone. When the new wave era ended in 1964, the directors of it started eventually finding their own path. Eric Rohmer started his series of six film, The Moral Tales and continued with Comedies & Proverbs in the 1980's. L'ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend) is sixth and the last one in the series. It builds around the proverb: "My friends' friends are my friends." The comical situations emerge between two women who unintentionally swap boyfriends.
Two women suddenly meet while having lunch. One of the two women is Blanche, she is a skinny, uptight young woman, who is still searching for herself. The other is Lea, she's self-confident and a very feminine person. They both have something going on with men, so the main characters have their opponents; shy Fabien and a true player, Alexandre.
While trying to figure out the space of My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, I can't miss the futuristic city the characters live in. I got the feeling that Eric Rohmer isn't trying to tell a story of four specific people who live in France. To me he's telling about all the people living in these suburbs of Paris. The space of a futuristic city, the city full of postmodern architecture without any past. This theme of the milieu leads to rootlessness. The people of this city have no past, each of them like to analyze and talk about themselves. But none of them really know who they are.
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend offered these kind of things for me. In addition to its intelligent narrative, it is full of hilarious comical situations. Eric Rohmer builds four very interesting characters which will take you on board.
"My friends' boyfriends are my boyfriends."
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- Jun 21, 2010
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- My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
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- Base de loisirs, Neuville-sur-Oise, Val-d'Oise, France(Blanche and Fabien solve all the problems of the world while walking along the Cergy man-made lakes)
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- Gross US & Canada
- $823,243
- Gross worldwide
- $825,128